I had a really good feeling about the Open Season show last night and it did NOT disappoint. Brady Lange—I'm looking at you. What I know about this PYT

These days, it’s not enough to simply publish posts on your blog; you have to share your posts and actively promote them on social media if you’d like more eyeballs on them than your own. But,...

The Brewers Almanac is quite a lot of fun if you love arcane statistics.  (Excise taxes broken down by state and by beer strength?  Check.  Percentage of beer sold in cans in 1962?  Check.)  This one was especially

Our eternal appreciation to Netflix, who in addition to providing us with

At only 4 years old, Crocker was the lone survivor of a 1987 plane crash that killed 154 people aboard and two on the ground near Detroit Metropolitan Airport. In the new documentary, "Sole Survivor," Crocker discusses how the crash of the Phoenix-bound jetliner has affected her.

The highlight of the Tiki-themed birthday party was not the drinking of my first Jet Pilot, which took two hands to hold and was on FIRE. It wasn’t the whole pig roasting on a spit. It wasn’t the strange cast of characters dressed as mermaids, pirates or island explorers… No, the highlight of the party [...]

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Mike Acker: "I like Neil Olshey as a big-picture guy, but the pressure is on him this offseason. And like Terry Stotts, it’s partially because the team he “built” was better than expected in his first season."

Mike Acker: "I like Neil Olshey as a big-picture guy, but the pressure is on him this offseason. And like Terry Stotts, it’s partially because the team he “built” was better than expected in his first season."

The band said it took some time to get on track when they began writing songs for the new album, which comes four years after "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" was named a Top 10 album on end-of-the-year lists for Rolling Stone, Time and Spin magazines, among others.

NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries said the movie was beamed up to the outpost Monday and the two Russians and American on board had a day off Tuesday.

From the inbox: Subject: Does Her Reading Material Reflect Her Willingness to Put Out? Date: May 15, 2013 12:31:56 PM PDT To:

While TV was finally focusing on Broadway, plenty of stage veterans jumped to TV during the two-year run of "Smash." Some flamed out, some are holding on and some still hope:

A 40,000-square-foot Market of Choice will be the centerpiece of a new, $30 million retail development in Beaverton.

Local frame builders Travis Cooper (left) and Joshua Bryant will share their craft with the public at Velo Cult. (Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) Since they moved to Portland from San Diego just over one year ago, Velo Cult Bike Shop & Tavern has proven that the old rules don't apply when it comes to [...]

Sotheby's Auction House in New York announced Tuesday that Portland Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen sold a 1953

Our friends at the IRS, who will soon be overseeing our health care, keep running into trouble. As if the whole targeting of conservative groups and Jews wasn't bad enough (back to that in a moment), they're now being sued...

Trump is accused of making false promises to an investor in his Trump International Hotel & Tower in downtown Chicago.

Budget negotiations are well underway in Portland City Hall—although, by most accounts, with less intrigue and cloak-and-dagger than in previous years. That's because Mayor Charlie Hales made a lot of people happy with his budget pla

Portland Trail Blazers fans discuss first-year general manager Neil Olshey.

Portland Trail Blazers fans discuss first-year general manager Neil Olshey.

We've had two successful nights of Open Season fashion shows, so why stop now? Nope, not gonna! Tonight features some of the city's heaviest hitters in Pendleton's The Portland Collection, designed by Rachel Turk, Na

We've had two successful nights of Open Season fashion shows, so why stop now? Nope, not gonna! Tonight f

Peter DeFazio is on the hunt, his targets are business shakedown artists known as Patent Trolls.Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) introduced the SHIELD A

The housing market in Utah is on the rebound after five long years. The interest rates are at an all time low but are most likely headed the way of home prices, and that direction is up. This housing situation … Continue read

Prospective homebuyers in the Portland-metro area still waiting to capitalize on favorable market conditions likely have missed the boat. The inventory of homes is hovering at only about three months, and sales prices are skyrocketing.

The former actor-turned-Governator this week released a YouTube bit promoting the week of comedic Internet film, adding "comedian" to his already diverse resume.

Since hernia surgery, I’ve been having a wonderful problem. My clothes aren’t fitting anymore! I’ve been steadily losing weight since 1996, when I peaked at 528 pounds. I hit a plateau or two along the way, but have been making slow but sure progress. Especially lately. After surgery, I began wearing a bac

Portlanders tend to do a really good job of staying behind the scenes on some pretty amazing projects. Case in point: Hello Again, a project created by Chris Milk and Beck that just won a Webby for “Best Use of Video or Moving Image” and “Auto & Auto Services.” But those 360-degree shots were ma

Park Avenue Armory (photo James Ewing) Congrats to Alex Mackin Dolan who was just awarded

Between the “radio play project” and the “serialized story posted online project” I’m leaning toward the latter for now, with the former project as something I’ll tackle once I feel certain I can tell a proper story during a set amount of installments. Or, put another way, I’m makin

2000's Pitch Black—at least as I remember it, it's been a while—was pretty great. One of Vin Diesel's first big roles, director David Twohy accomplished quite a bit with a relatively low budget; like Twohy's The Arrival (with Charlie Sheen!) it was a fairly smart and consistently entertaining sci-fi

Harry Smith's record collection influenced American music. In advance of what would have been his 90th birthday, a party.

News of the gene's link to cancer isn't new. Neither is the preventive mastectomy option some women choose. Still, Jolie's status as one of the world's leading celebrities means the spotlight follows wherever she goes and in this case, that means one excellent opportunity for educating the public about genetics, cancer and

Earl Blumenauer has throughout his career focused on farming and Agriculture, and this may be the year something gets done. 

ROCKBOX is a dance party. Pure and Simple. Rockbox residents DJ KEZ (360 Vinyl, THE FIX) and Matt Nelkin (Liquid Beat, KPSU), play a masterfully blended mix of fun, dance oriented Hip-Hop and R&B with a dash of Dancehall, 80s, 90s, Disco, and House thrown in for good measure.

Margaret Sanger After lo these many years, an awakening of sorts is stirring: “Abortion is the number one killer of black Americans,” said Rev. Arnold Culbreath, the Urban Outreach Director of Life Issues Institute, said, adding that the black community...

The Portland Opera had one of their cartoonist invitationals last week, which also meant that I got to livetweet through my second consecutive

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House Bill 2646, which would require contractors to pay prevailing wage for construction projects at public colleges and universities, was approved by the Oregon Senate, with a 27-2 vote on Tuesday.

This has been a good week for album announcement news. Local jangle-jam-folk-Southern-krautrockers Houndstooth have announced their much-awaited debut album, Ride Out the Dark, is coming out July 16 on Philly/Brooklyn psych label No Quarter. That's the album cover up there (shades of Ta

On the next-to-the-last-episode of the season of "Grimm," Juliette finally sees Wesen in their natural state, a mysterious gent in a top hat brings the dead back to life, and Captain Renard's Eurotrashy Royal half-brother talks trash about Portland. The scoundrel!

Officials in Monmouth, southwest of Salem, are remodeling Main Street Park. A 12-foot-tall, 10,000-pound cement fountain was demolished and is being replaced with a flat water feature and an amphitheater as part of an $850,000 project.

Kelly's Olympian–Oker, A Volcano, Steel Hymen, 9 pm, $5Aladdin Theater–Milk Carton Kids, Barefoot Movement, 8 pm, $15 Holo

Chris Mannix over at SI.com has posted his final NBA Draft "big board," which will morph into a mock draft after the draft order is decided on Tuesday. I'm not entirely sure what the difference is, at least if you prescribe to the notion that teams, especially teams selecting in the lottery, go with the best player availabl

Jolie revealed Tuesday in an op-ed article in The New York Times that she had a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction for an inherited gene mutation that put her at high risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

Rebecca Jacobson over at the Willamette Week interviewed Mike Daisey in advance of his Tuesday show Journalism, and she did a nice job with it. I've interviewed Daisey a few times and he definitely tends to run a conversation; Jacobson

The two have come to the Cannes Film Festival just months after facing off as the two favorites for best director at the Academy Awards. In February, Lee won the Oscar many expected to go to Spielberg for his Civil War epic "Lincoln."

194 pages Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (April 15, 2012) Tom Winton has written another great novel that kept me riveted, “The Last American Martyr.” His main character, Tom Soles, has written a book, “Enough is Enough,” that excoriates the stock market and Capitalism. Tom Soles writes about